When Grant took Presidential office in 1869, Reconstruction of the former Confederate States had not been completed.

Robert Hoke, a former Confederate general from North Carolina, purchased the cave on July 21, 1869 as one of his business enterprises after the American Civil War.

A young Sussex gentleman named John Openshaw has a strange story: in 1869 his uncle Elias Openshaw had suddenly come back to England to settle on an estate at Horsham, West Sussex after living for years in the United States as a planter in Florida and serving as a Colonel in the Confederate Army.

* In Texas v. White ( 1869 ), the Court held in a 5 – 3 decision that Texas had remained a state of the United States ever since it first joined the Union, despite its joining the Confederate States of America and its being under military rule at the time of the decision in the case.

James Wallace Cooke ( died 1869 ) was an American naval officer, serving in the United States Navy and during the American Civil War serving in the Confederate Navy.

The hospital was established in December 1869, at Howard's Grove Hospital, a former Confederate unit, but is moved to a new campus in 1882.

In 1869 Jefferson Davis, the only President of the Confederate States of America, stayed in Dowanhill while visiting the Glasgow merchant James Smith.

: Published in 52 volumes from 1869 to the 1950s, includes reminiscences and analyses of war experiences by Confederate veterans.

Following the Battle of Washita River in November 1868, Custer was alleged ( by Captain Frederick Benteen, chief of scouts Ben Clark, and Cheyenne oral tradition ) to have unofficially " married " Mo-nah-se-tah, daughter of the Cheyenne chief Little Rock in the winter or early spring of 1868 – 1869.

From 1869 to 1878 the lighthouse keeper was Captain Thomas Musgrave.

In 1869 he served as a midshipman on HMS Warrior, where he witnessed the accidental sinking of HMS Captain.

Captain Charles Napier Sturt ( 28 April 1795 – 16 June 1869 ) was a British explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia.

On 6th January 1869 Captain Leighton was elected to command The Artists Rifles by a general meeting of the Corps.

In 1869, Captain Clark partnered with George Hearst to build a wharf out on the end of the point so sailing ships could tie up and load and unload goods.

* HMS Captain was a masted turret ship launched in 1869.

In 1869, the Modoc were rounded up by the United States Army and returned to the Klamath Reservation, but conditions had not improved, and Captain Jack led a band of about 180 Modoc to the Tule Lake area in April, 1870.

After a few attempts to negotiate in behalf of the complaining settlers, including failed attempts by Agent Lindsay Applegate in 1864 – 6 and Superintendent Huntigton in 1867, the Modoc finally relocated in 1869 following a council between Kintpuash ( also known as Captain Jack ); Alfred B. Meacham, the US Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon that replaced Huntigton ; O. C.

Originally named Bentley Manor by one of its first settlers, Captain Christopher Billop ( 1638 – 1726 ), after a small ship he owned named the Bentley, the district was renamed Tottenville in 1869, apparently in honor of the locally prominent Totten family, whose name can be seen on tombstones in one of the earliest churches, Bethel Methodist Church, on Amboy Road.

Captain Jack and his band lived in this area from December 31, 1869, to April 26, 1870.

He was also a Whig politician and succeeded his father as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1833, a post he held until 1834, and again from 1835 to 1841, from 1846 to 1852, from 1852 to 1858, from 1859 to 1866 and from 1868 to 1869.

Pressure from the Royal Navy's proponent of turrets, Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, led to the building of HMS Captain to his design in 1869.

* Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley ( 1808 – 1869 ), son of previous, member of Parliament for Worcestershire and Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms

* Captain George Moodie the first captain of the Cutty Sark who oversaw the building of her in 1869 and served as her Captain until 1872, lived his final years in Auchtermuchty in MacDuff House on the High Street.

Captain The Right Honourable Edward Algernon FitzRoy, DL ( 24 July 1869 – 3 March 1943 ) was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death.

Burgoyne later achieved the rank of captain and was killed when in command of HMS Captain ( 1869 ), which capsized off Cape Finisterre during a gale on 7 September 1870.

* Charles Fremantle ( 1800 – 1869 ), Captain of the first ship to arrive at the Swan River, Western Australia, in 1829 to establish a colony

In 1869 local citizens changed the name to Marton to honour the home village of Captain James Cook in Yorkshire, marking his landing in New Zealand exactly 100 years earlier.

Captain Hoel and Elizabeth Hoel had two children: Sarah Elizabeth Hoel, born 18 December 1869, and Rion Hoel, born 15 September 1871.

Historic buildings such as the first YMCA circa 1869 ; Tompkins Department Store circa 1880 ; The DeGroot House circa 1810 ; the Captain Nevielle House circa 1750 ; and the Greek Revival buildings at Sailor's Snug Harbor still stand along the street today.

After being variously employed with the Navy, Army, Militia, and Volunteers he retired in 1869 with the rank of Captain.

* 1869 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.

The first confirmed bank robbery involving Jesse James occurred on December 7, 1869 at the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin.

After Jesse James was murdered in St. Joseph, Frank James surrendered in 1882 to face Daviess County charges in connection with the train robbery / murder as well as murder charges in the 1869 robbery.

In 1869 Jesse, Spencer, Horace and Jame Siler, sons of Solomon Siler, and John, Josiah, James and Edward Siler, the sons of James Siler, purchased the land after moving from Siler City, North Carolina.

On December 7, 1869, Frank and Jesse James are believed to have robbed the Davies County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri.

The Croydon newspaper was founded by Jesse Ward in 1869, and it and the other Advertiser publications are now part of the Northcliffe Media Group, which is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and is the largest newspaper publisher in the United Kingdom.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

* 1869 – William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian poet ( d. 1963 )

In 1869, William Frederick Poole quoted from various school textbooks of the time demonstrating they were in agreement on Cotton Mather's role in the Witch Trials:

* 1869 – William Strunk, Jr., American author and educator ( d. 1946 )

The record label's logo, based on a drawing called Evening: Fall of Day ( 1869 ) by William Rimmer, features a picture of Apollo.

* William Greenleaf ( 1801 – 1869 )

* 1806 – William Pitt Fessenden, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury ( 1864 – 65 ) ( d. 1869 )

** William V. Pratt, American admiral ( b. 1869 )

* September 4 – George William de Carteret, author from Jersey island ( b. 1869 )

* April 4 – William A. Moffett, U. S. admiral ( crash of airship ) ( b. 1869 )

* February 20 – William Carleton, Irish novelist ( d. 1869 )

The financial misdeeds of various figures throughout American history sometimes casts a dark shadow on financial investing as a whole, and include names such as William Duer, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould ( the latter two believed to have been involved with an effort to collapse the U. S. gold market in 1869 ) as well as modern figures such as Bernard Madoff who " bilked billions from investors ".

William Hale Thompson ( May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944 ) was Mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931.

The Métis became more fearful when the Canadian government appointed the notoriously anti-French William McDougall as the Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories on September 28, 1869, in anticipation of a formal transfer to take effect in December.

* William Carleton, 1794 – 1869, writer

William Strunk Jr. ( 1 July 1869 – 26 September 1946 ) was a professor of English at Cornell University and author of the The Elements of Style ( 1918 ), which, after being revised and enlarged by his former student E. B.

* William Boyce Thompson ( 1869 – 1930 ), founder of Newmont Mining and financier

* William Hamlin ( 1772 – 1869 )

* William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, 1861 – 1869

Speech of William H. Seward at Sitka, August 12, 1869 ( 1869 ; Digitized page images & text )

Founded as the Pennsylvania Female College on December 11, 1869, by Reverend William Trimble Beatty, Chatham was initially situated in the Berry mansion on Woodland Road off Fifth Avenue in the neighborhood of Shadyside.

The county was created by the 1874-1875 territorial legislature and was named for William Henry Harrison Mercer ( 1884 – 1901 ), an early rancher who settled north of Bismarck in 1869.

The first city elections were held on April 19, 1869 at which the following officials were elected: George F. Stearns, Mayor ; Charlie Gay, Recorder ; W. Irving Latimer, Treasurer ; and William Van Loo, Supervisor.

* William Smith ( Medal of Honor, 1869 ) ( 1838 –?